Now that all of the tests are once again passing on the coreutils
build-bot, I expect to make a coreutils release in the next day or two.
There is still a minor problem in that users of Solaris ZFS file systems
NFS-mounted on non-Solaris systems will see that cp -p sometimes tries to
copy ACLs when it shouldn't, but that's not worth holding up the release.
In the mean time, here's the latest snapshot:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gzhttp://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz.sig
Please build it and run "make -k check" on a few unusual
systems today or tomorrow and report any problems. That might
save someone (yourself, even) some trouble down the road.

This is looking to be the best coreutils yet (nice work on getting
Darwin clean!), but it still fails to pass 'make check' on four of my
platforms...

NOTE: All tests were run as non-root on an NFS volume. chgrp tests were
skipped.

(*...ate my buffer, so I can't tell what else, if anything, failed. I
will re-run tomorrow and follow up with a more verbose report.)

FAILURES:
---------

I have *NO* c99-compatible compiler on sparc/Solaris, at least configure
is not detecting it properly. This includes the most recent one I have
available, 'cc: Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 2001/05/15'! It looks
suspiciously like my compiler may be broken.

sort-compress still fails with a low process limit (e.g. my OSF
system)... I thought this was fixed? It also failed on ia64/hpux.

There is (still) a really annoying problem with the perl detection that
leads to "can't find strict.pm" problems; maybe we could check that perl
is *usable*, not just if it exists? Because of this it isn't clear how
many test failures are spurious. (It's also unfortunate that so many
tests need perl; perl isn't fun to build... so far every time I've
considered trying it I've given up.) For now I'm not even going to try
to chase the OSF test failures, this needs to be addressed first.

On AIX: '"xstrndup.c", line 33.11: 1506-196 (S) Initialization between
types "char*" and "int" is not allowed.'... wasn't this fixed?